Sep 12, 2013

A startup accelerator for the world’s poorest

There’s an opportunity emerging that I’m compelled to explore, and I’ve written about it on Medium.

If kids in poor Ethiopian villages can teach themselves to hack a tablet in 4 months, it makes sense to support them like we do in Western startup accelerators. With mobile adoption in Asia and Africa, the timing is right. With the economic trends working in their favour, they are investible. I want to do this, and I need your help.

Read the full post on medium.com and please join the discussion on Hacker News.

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What am I up to these days?

I’m a new parent, and prioritising my attention on our new rhythms as a family.

Work-wise, I’m trekking along at a cozy pace, doing stuff that doesn’t require meetings :)

I have a few non-exec/advisory roles for engineering edu programs. I’m also having fun making a few apps, going deep with zero-knowledge cryptography, and have learned to be a pretty good LLM prompt engineer.

In the past, I've designed peer-learning programs for Oxford, UCL, Techstars, Microsoft Ventures, The Royal Academy Of Engineering, and Kernel, careering from startups to humanitech and engineering. I also played a role in starting the Lean Startup methodology, and the European startup ecosystem. You can read about this here.

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Books & collected practices

Peer Learning Is - a broad look at peer learning around the world, and how to design peer learning to outperform traditional education
Mentor Impact - researched the practices used by the startup mentors that really make a difference
DAOistry - practices and mindsets that work in blockchain communities
Decision Hacks - early-stage startup decisions distilled
Source Institute - skunkworks I founded with open peer learning formats and ops guides, and our internal guide on decentralised teams